The Hunt

By Thokozani Magagula

The tribal prince's warning to the band of heavily armed poachers was clear: "Leave this land or you will all not survive this night. Every force of nature, from the smallest creature to the mighty elephant, will fight against you."

His warning was not heeded. After all, the only resistance the poachers encountered when their land rovers invaded the tranquil, untamed land of the Zulus, was a lone adventurer Brogan Steyn, who was only armed with a bow and arrow, a boomerang and a machete. They couldn't have imagined that Mother Nature could be an ally to the one man fighting for the preservation of the endangered rhinoceros species.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thokozani Magagula
• Release date: Oct 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386826958

Thokozani Magagula

Thokozani Magagula began his writing career in 1999, as a freelance reporter for the community-based Newcastle Advertiser, in Newcastle, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. In 2001 he moved to Middelburg, Mpumalanga, and joined the Middelburg News Edition. After a two-year stint with the rag, he was snatched up by the Caxton-owned Middelburg Observer. Working for the Observer granted Thokozani the opportunity to also contribute to Caxton-owned titles, amongst them The Daller, The Citizen and Mpumalanga Mirror, in the process giving him provincial and national exposure. In 2006, Thokozani joined Media-24 tabloid Daily Sun, as Mpumalanga province correspondent. A year later he was hired as regional editor in charge of a team of right journalists, a position he held for 10 years. Thokozani has published a book titled Out Of The Ashes, which tells the story of presidential hopeful Yvonne Ntshangase's battle with her past of having been raped as a teenage freedom fighter, at an exile camp in Angola. He has also been listed amongst the 30 Africa Book Club writers whose work will be published in an anthology later this month. Emmah Theron is Thokozani's third full-length novel.